University of Cambridge > Talks.cam > gc121's list > Codesign in action: the hardware and software architecture of Blue Gene/Q and its impact on scientific applications

Codesign in action: the hardware and software architecture of Blue Gene/Q and its impact on scientific applications

Add to your list(s) Download to your calendar using vCal

  • UserDr Jeff Hammond (Argonne National Laboratory)
  • ClockMonday 03 September 2012, 11:00-12:00
  • HouseTCM Seminar Room.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Prof. Gabor Csanyi.

Blue Gene/Q is the third generation of a family of massively parallel supercomputers designed by IBM in collaboration with the US Department of Energy. It reflects a substantial effort in codesign: the hardware is designed to meet specific application needs and, in turn, applications are tuned to take advantage of its unique features.

This talk will describe the Blue Gene/Q hardware and software architecture, identifying the critical features for scalability and overal performance within a non-disruptive software environment. Techniques for optimizing libraries and scientific applications for this and other next-generation architectures will be given. Finally, a description of porting efforts and performance results for chemistry and material science applications will be provided, including LAMMPS , NAMD, NWChem, GPAW , QMCPACK and MADNESS .

This talk is part of the gc121's list series.

Tell a friend about this talk:

This talk is included in these lists:

Note that ex-directory lists are not shown.

 

© 2006-2024 Talks.cam, University of Cambridge. Contact Us | Help and Documentation | Privacy and Publicity